This study is a corpus-assisted investigation concerning the functions of the formulaic sequence just kidding and its variants (e.g., only kidding, just joking, JK) in spoken and written American English. We identified 1200 instances of this phrase from multiple corpora representing a range of modalities (Contemporary Corpus of American English, Global Web-Based English corpus, The Santa Barbar...

Perceptual and acoustic research on dialect variation in the United States requires an appropriate corpus of spoken language materials. Existing speech corpora that include dialect variation are limited by poor recording quality, small numbers of talkers, and/or small samples of speech from each talker. The Nationwide Speech Project corpus was designed to contain a large amount of speech produc...

This study elaborates Mulyadhi Kartanegara's thoughts regarding the continuity of Islamic philosophy after Ibn Rushd era. research is a case study-based qualitative using review on travel notes and reports as object. also uses other relevant studies to understand Kartanegara’s big idea. concludes that, although idea Philosophy does not perish in Iranian region has been thesis recognized by many...

there are different approaches to the question of developments in contemporary iran. this research is an attempt to introduce communitarianism theory whilst at the same time use it to examine the history of political thought in contemporary iran. today this theory is one of the most important approaches of post modernist era which has challenged liberalism and some tenets of modernity. using th...

The student movement is considered as one of the important issues of Iranian political sociology, but its role and its nature and its relationship with other movements and movements in Iran have been discussed. The present article is trying to answer the role and function of the student movement in Iran. Using a descriptive-analytic approach, political currents have become instrumental in most ...

The Contemporary Iran government is the result of post-mashrutyat movement (as an enlightenment movement). It has been sealed off by coup Sayd Zyaddin and Raza Shah. Starting from those days until present Islamic Republic Iran, used history, formal state records (historians, political elite academic institutions) education to make allegiance among Kurdish intellectuals. This adopted in accordan...

This paper introduces the concept of a dynamic key infrastructure for Grid. It utilises the properties of Identity-based Cryptography (IBC) to simplify key management techniques used in current Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) settings for Grid. This approach can offer greater simplicity, flexibility, and enhanced computation trade-offs.